I just found an interesting article online which actually come from an online business/economy site. How in the name of all that's holy can anything on that site be remotely relevant to my interests? Well, this Professor from a college called NTNU in Norway claims that WoW-players of today are the leaders of tomorrow. Quite disturbing, actually, considering the amount of numb nuts I've encountered in my soon-to-be 3 years of playing. Anyways, this is what he said:
"-At high levels in WoW you're forced to coordinate various players and their competence towards the goals you seek to achieve. People from all over the world are then communicating with each other, the professor says. He also thinks that our future leaders must be far better at multi-tasking than they are today.
-Those who are digitally competent will have more possibilities then those who are not. That's what signifies the so-called "digital natives", their ability to multi-task."
Quite a few professors around the world seem to agree with him. adding that "leadership is something that can't be easily learned through theory. These web-based games give its players valuable practice in leadership and I think there will be a demand after this. These games are a safe platform for learning through trial and error."
Amazing. One day, WOW is an evil thing that should be outlawed or at least come with an age restriction of 30+, a game that causes kids to rot away in their dungeons, living off pizza and coke, neglecting education, friends and personal hygiene. The next day, it's a wonderful thing that helps evolve the multi-tasking and leadership skills of the leaders of tomorrow.
So what are they saying? The next generation of leaders will have smelly pits, no friends and no formal education, but they'll be brilliant at multitasking and leading? I'm not sure I want that boss. Unless it me.
Link to original article - in norwegian.
3 comments:
Hmmmmm....I'm not sure I'd mind that boss...S/he might not be too stringent with how I used my time at work ;)
But, big raid groups requires competent leadership, but I'm not sure wow teaches it, as much as brings to front the ones with natural leadership abilities.
That is probably true, but WoW might be able to help those with innate leadership abilities to realize that they actually possess said abilities, and can help with developing them.
And, if a potential boss asks "what do you like to do in your spare time", at which you reply "I am a raid leader 5 times a week for a successul major guild on World of Warcraft", which causes to boss to light up and exclaim "oh, good!", that's A-OK with me :D
Hmmm...blizzard should give out certificates to players who lead successful raids in major instances...;)
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